AJP - Renal Physiology, Vol 258, Issue 4 1018-F1025, Copyright © 1990 by American Physiological Society

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Peritubular capillary permeability and intravascular RBC aggregation after ischemia: effects of neutrophils

P. O. Hellberg, O. T. Kallskog, G. Ojteg and M. Wolgast
Department of Physiology and Medical Biophysics, University of Uppsala, Sweden.

The influence of neutrophils on peritubular capillary permeability and intravascular red blood cell (RBC) aggregation after renal ischemia was studied in anesthetized Sprague-Dawley rats. Intraperitoneal administration of antineutrophil serum (ANS) reduced the number of neutrophils in the blood to 3% of normal. The control group received an equal volume of inactive serum. Renal macromolecular capillary permeability was studied from 1) extravasation of albumin and 2) plasma to lymph transport of plasma proteins and of neutral and negatively charged lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). The net driving force (NDF) for fluid transfer over the peritubular capillary membrane was determined by the micropuncture technique. The intrarenal distributions of neutrophils and RBC were measured by a histochemical method and 51Cr-labeled RBC, respectively. Under preischemic control conditions neither macromolecular permeability nor renal clearance of inulin was affected by ANS. However, the steep increase in the macromolecular transport from plasma to lymph resulting from 45 min of ischemia and reperfusion was blunted by ANS, and preischemic control values were restored after 1 h of recirculation. In the control group the mass transport of plasma proteins increased twofold and that of both neutral and negatively charged LDH fourfold. NDF was equal in the two groups. In the ANS-treated animals the intrarenal neutrophil content was only 2% of the control. Neutrophils were found mainly in the cortex, whereas RBC aggregation was observed only in the renal medulla. It is concluded that neutrophils mediate postischemic capillary leakage. It is suggested that this leakage underlies RBC aggregation and incomplete return of blood flow in the renal medulla after ischemia.

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